在selenium中锚点标签onclick功能不起作用？

Question

I have javascript onclick as:

<a href="#" id="download" onclick="Exceldownload('sites')">
    <i class="fa fa-download card-down-icon" aria-hidden="true"></i>
</a>

In selenium I added like this:

public void x() {
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@onclick='Exceldownload("sites")']")).click();
}

But I am getting error as element is not clickable.

Answer 1

Possibilities

1. Duplicate web element with same xpath in the page.
2. Element may be in frame. You need to switch to frame
3. Trying to access the web element before page is loading.Give some wait time.

If everything is correct try by clicking through java script click as shown in snippet.

 WebElement element =driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@onclick='Exceldownload("sites")']")); JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver; executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element); 

Answer 2

element is not clickable

This issue can have multiple reasons as below:

• Maybe some other element like a loading image overlays the element and disappears after the element is fully loaded. Then you should wait until the element is clickable:

   new WebDriverWait(driver, 60).until( ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("download"))).click(); 

• Maybe there are multiple elements present with the same locator, and unfortunately you're locating a hidden element which is present on the page but not clickable. Then you need to use a unique locator.

• Maybe this occurred due to a designing problem. It might be possible some other element overlays the element and is receiving the click event. Then you can use JavascriptExecutor as an alternative solution:

   ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript( "arguments[0].click();", driver.findElement(By.id("download")));